Nathan Lau

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

Main Area: Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics

Cognitive engineering

Human performance

Interface design

Situation awareness

Ecological interface design

Cognitive work analysis

Dr. Lau's ongoing research projects include: (i) concept of operations and display design research in cyber-security for remotely piloted aircrafts operations center, (ii) hardware-and-human-in-the-loop research program for nuclear process control, (iii) efficiency investigation of the manufacturing and repairing processes of jet engine turbines, (iv) development of a driver distraction alert system using motion capture and sonification technology, and (v) usability and evaluation study for an artificial pancreas.

Lau, N. and Skraaning Jr, G. (2015). Exploring Sub-dimensions of Situation Awareness to Support Integrated System Validation. Proc. of the 9th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT).